Rasa and katharsis: A comparative study, aided by several films

Journal of the American Oriental Society

Volumn 122, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 264-277

  Gerow, Edwin ^a  

^a REED COLLEGE   (United States)

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EID: 34547821032     PISSN: 00030279     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3087620     Document Type: Article

References (9)

1. See also stray remarks by such writers as Susanne K. Langer, Feeling and Form (New York, 1953), 323-24;
2. T. G. Mainkar, The Theory of the Samdhis and Saṁdhyaṅgas(Delhi, 1978), 184-85;
3. and P. J. Chaudhury, "Catharsis in the Light of Indian Aesthetics, " JAAC 15.2 (1956). Thakkar's all too enigmatic work isimplicitly acknowledged in much of what follows; it has greatly helped medevelop the problematic of this paper.
4. Cf. Wellek and Warren, Theory of Literature, ch. 9: "Literature and Society."
5. Recently, Gerald Else, Aristotle's Poetics: The Argument (Cambridge, 1957).
6. See my "Plot Structure and the Development of Rasa in the Śakuntalā, " JAOS 99 (1979): 559ff.;
7. JAOS 100 (1980): 267ff.
8. See Roland Barthes, L'Empire des signes (Paris, 1980), 95ff.; here, Zenis taken as a search for the abolition of meaning - or, what is the same thing, for expression without meaning: pure sign.
9. Rhetoric II: 1377 b 30ff.,